President Donald Trump Replaces Reince Priebus with John Kelly As Chief of Staff

REPORT. HERE'S LESTER ANHOLT.
>> GOOD DAY FROM NEW YORK, EVERYONE.
THE POWER STRUGGLE WE'VE BEEN WITNESSING IN THE WHITE HOUSE
THIS WEEK HAS PRODUCED A CASUALTY.
REINCE PRIEBUS IS OUT AS THE PRESIDENT'S CHIEF OF STAFF.
PRESIDENT TRUMP, ABOUT 10 MINUTES AGO TWEETING, I WILL
READ IT, I AM PLEASED TO INFORM YOU I JUST NAMED GENERAL
SECRETARY JOHN F. KELLY AS WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF.
HE IS A GREAT AMERICAN. >> JOHN KELLY, HOMELAND SECURITY
SECRETARY OF LATE. LET'S GO TO NBC'S ANDREA
MITCHELL IN WASHINGTON, WHO HAS BEEN WATCHING THIS POWER
STRUGGLE. NOT HARD TO SEE THIS COMING IN
SOME FORM OR FASHION, ANDREA. >> ABSOLUTELY.
REINCE PRIEBUS HAS BEEN ON THE ROPES NOW.
CERTAINLY AFTER THE ATTACK FROM ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, THE NEW
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR IN A BLISTERING AND PROFANE ATTACK,
IT WAS VERY CLEAR HE WAS ON HIS WAY OUT.
THE DEPARTURE OF SEAN SPICER WHO CAME IN WITH REINCE PRIEBUS, THE
PRESIDENT BLAMING HIM FOR NOT BEING TOUGH ENOUGH AND THE LACK
OF A LEGISLATIVE STRATEGY ON HEALTHCARE, REPEAL OF OBAMACARE.
JOHN KELLY IS OF COURSE -- THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO SAYS I LOVE
MY JOB AND JOHN KELLY LOYAL AND VERY STRONG ENFORCING HIS
IMMIGRATION POLICY, THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS VERY
CONTROVERSIAL. ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, THIS IS A
MAN WHO IS A MARIN AND JOINED IN 1970 AND SERVED ON ACTIVE DUTY
IN THREE WARS AND HAS GIVEN THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE OF HIS SON,
WHO WAS ALSO A MARINE AND HAS A SECOND SON HEADED TO AFGHANISTAN
AND DAUGHTER THAT WORKS FOR THE FBI AND A FAMILY OF PUBLIC
SERVICE AND IN AN INTERVIEW LAST WEEK IN ASPEN, COLORADO, AT A
SECURITY CONFERENCE, HE SAID RETIREMENT WAS GETTING BORING
AND HE MISSED PUBLIC SERVICE. >> STAND BY.
LET ME GO TO PETE WILLIAMS NOW YOU MENTIONED, SPOKE TO THE
GENERAL, GENERAL KELLY AT THE ASPEN SECURITY CONFERENCE LAST
WEEK. WHAT WAS YOUR TAKE ON HIM?
ANY INDICATION THIS WAS SOMETHING UNDER CONSIDERATION?
>> NO. I WAS TALKING TO HOMELAND
SECURITY OFFICIALS LAST NIGHT ABOUT VARIOUS THINGS.
I GUESS THIS WAS COMING AS A SURPRISE TO THEM AND OFFERED TO
THE GENERAL VERY RECENTLY WITHIN THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS.
HE'S SOMEBODY WHO BELIEVED -- HE THOUGHT HIS PUBLIC SERVICE
CAREER WAS OVER AND GOT THE CALL AND THOUGHT IT WAS THE RIGHT
THING FOR HIM TO DO TO BE HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY.
HE'S HAD THE POINT FOR THE PRESIDENT ON THE IMMIGRATION
ISSUE. ALSO, GENERALLY THE HOMELAND
SECURITY PORTFOLIO AT LARGE, HE WAS THE ONE WHO PUT IN PLACE
THIS NEW REQUIREMENT FOR SECURITY FOR CARRY-ON
ELECTRONICS AROUND THE WORLD FIRST STARTING WITH 10 AIRPORTS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA AND NOW REQUIRING ALL AIRPORTS
THAT HAVE FLIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES TO UP THEIR GAME ON
SECURITY. I WOULD ASSUME, LESTER, THE
HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT WILL NOW BE LED BY THE WOMAN
WHO'S BEEN THE DEPUTY SECRETARY. SHE WILL SOON BECOME ACTING,
ELAINE DUKE. SHE WAS UNDERSECRETARY FOR
MANAGEMENT IN THE DEPARTMENT FROM 2008 TO 2010.
SHE'S BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK AT LEAST ONCE WITH THE DEPARTMENT
OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND NOW THE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE TO NOMINATE
SOMEONE ELSE AND GET ANOTHER NEW MEMBER OF HIS CABINET.
>> PETE WILLIAMS, THANK YOU, AS YOU WERE SPEAKING TO THE
PRESIDENT, TWEETING AGAIN, HE SAYS I WOULD LIKE TO THANK
REINCE PRIEBUS FOR HIS SERVICE AND DEDICATION TO HIS COUNTRY.
WE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT TOGETHER. I AM PROUD OF HIM.
PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVERING THIS MAJOR NEWS AS HE HAS DELIVERED A
LOT OF NEWS OF LATE VIA TWITTER. REINCE PRIEBUS IS OUT, CHIEF

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